samsung 840 EVO vs OCZ vertex 450

Hello everybody,

I'm actually going to buy an ssd and i really need your advices!!
I'm hesitationg between 2 models :

-Samsung 840 Evo 250 Gb
-OCZ Vertex 450 256 Gb.

I want to know wich one is the best between these two ssd in terms of:
-performance
-reliability
-life time

Thanks in advance for your advices

 

OCZ bankrupted and is sold to toshiba(?)

Samsung/crucial/plextor/intel is the most reliable

performance don't matter once you hit SATA 3 speeds, its just yet another flashy number to brag about

the ones stated above for reliability does say something to their life time writes

forget OCZ atm and stick to the popular brands for now, OCZ has flashy numbers but not reliable at all (and in real life, the flashy numbers don't make things go faster, an SSD is more than enough to make the user the bottleneck of system snappiness itself)

 

okay, thanks a lot.

And what about the RAPID mode? does it provide a boost?

And i also heard that the life of a tlc is not really long! is that true?

 

I would avoid OCZ too. They have bad customers ratings on their drives and not very reliable. Samsung drives are top notch stuff

Very untrue. For normal users it will last 50+ years. TLC drives will outlast many of their owners

I use it on my Samsung 500GB EVO. Hard to explain what makes it faster but its super snappy with RAPID enabled. Everything happens on an instant sort of

 

As you can see, I got both in my laptop and all perform without a hitch.

 

Of course you could get lucky and pick one that works. But

I would stay away from drives with ratings like this

I would however be more than happy to buy a drive with ratings like this

 

Easy choice. Go for the samsung. OCZ is bankrupt. My samsung 830 256gb drive in my old gateway is awesome.

 

Performance? The Vertex 450 is easily the stronger drive.

Reliability? I would agree with everyone above.

Lifetime? Depends on your specific workflows and expectations. Which you haven't stated...


Whatever you do, don't believe 50+ years... that is not how SSD's work.


Tell us what you'll use the SSD for so the answers we give will be based on reality, not fiction.

 

At the time of my purchase my OCZ was highly rated (though not a perfect score), so you can judge from there. And obviously their bankruptcy doesn't mean that their products will instantly fail.

Not to mention that even in a bad company there can be some quality products. As to my OCZ logevity? Time will tell. Stay tuned.

 

Thanks a lot for your answers !!!
I will use the ssd to put the Os, some games like battlefield 4 and to do some internal copy (larger files) and to do some video editings

 

Some video editing? Hmmm... I wouldn't be looking at TLC nand for that (and certainly not at the too small 240/256GB capacity; remember you'll want to OP by ~30% to keep the drive performance as consistent and healthy (least WA...) as possible, so keep that reduced capacity in mind if you want sustained performance over time).

 

Ok So what should I do then? Buy or not buy the evo that's the question lol xD

 

and what about the intel 335 240 gb pixmania propose it to me for the same price of an crucial m500 240 gb!! What do you think?

 

The truth is that Samsung EVO 250GB is a good deal slower than the other higher capacity models from Samsung.

Buy Samsung 840 PRO 256GB instead. It have speeds like 500GB+ versions of EVO and its super fast. Plus you can also enable RAPID with it.

SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD256BW 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Newegg.com

 

okay thanks for the reply. But i actually live in belgium so... xD
and what do you think about the intel 335 240 gb? in terms of performance and reliabily?

 

The first OCZ branded SSD released under the ownership of Toshiba is the Vertex 460

OCZ Vertex 460 Low Profile 7mm 2.5" SATA 3 6Gb/s SSD

Reviews:
AnandTech | OCZ Vertex 460 (240GB) Review

OCZ Vertex 460 240GB SSD Review | TweakTown

It's very sad that nobody reviews SSDs while they are the primary boot drive in use with an OS and various amounts of compressible and incompressible data.

Reviewing an empty drive while in safe mode to me is useless.

BTW,I have an OCZ Vertex 2(34nm) that has been in daily use since June 2010.

 

The Intel 335 is reliable. It's an Intel. It is the value drive with good performance.
HARDOCP - Introduction - Intel 335 Series 240 GB SSD Review

At 240GB I wouldn't consider the Crucial M500 for performance reasons. At 480GB or more the M500 is very good. Is the Sandisk Extreme II 240GB available in Belgium? For performance, it would be my first choice in 240-256GB size. Sandisk seems reliable in their top of the line SSDs.

I would consider the OCZ Vertex 460 under Toshiba not the 450. The 460 is the value drive, performs well and the price is competitive, actually lower than EVO if you read the TweakTown review that What'sThePoint linked. Read the conclusion. Hopefully, OCZ reliability will improve greatly.

 

I wouldn't consider Intel to be all that reliable, though, since it's using a Sandforce controller. Yes, Intel develops their own firmware and Sandforce has improved somewhat since the first generation, but personally I'd be more comfortable with Intel-made controllers or other in-house stuff like Samsung's gear.